Massimiliano Amatrice

Massimiliano Amatrice was born in 1968 in Naples. He came to drawing as a child, driven by the need to invent morphologically altered faces, whose sign he traced. He has participated in several exhibitions marked by public and critical success. Inspired by Caravaggio’s realism, Massimiliano Amatrice has such an experimental curiosity that he even allows himself to copy works by artists of a certain importance, such as a Bouguereau. Nonetheless, most of his works make up a large collection of portraits, self-portraits, still lifes with objects, landscape views and animal figures, with the latter of which he demonstrates a peculiar sensitivity towards the socio-individual problems of being, into which he is projected the drama with a universal conception. The drama is often narrated both through the carefully crafted subjects, and with often slightly hidden symbolic elements, and with its own sense of self-evident expressionism. Eclectic and instinctual, he decides on drafts that are sometimes more marked and sometimes more decisive, clear-cut and “stained”, bringing the conceptual dimension to a lighter and at the same time sublime level. The narrative lyric is intense and simple, slightly baroque and characterized by minute, high-sounding and “outside the box” chromatic throws. Through the perfectible figuration, always in oil on the canvas, the pictorial harmony of artistic mastery constantly echoes.